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WTXF Fox 29 News At 6PM April 10, 2015

Illegal dumping took on a brand new look. Surveillance video ordained by fox 29 shows thieves sort through and discarding stolen medical supplies and equipment in an notorious Illegal Dumping ground. Those who live near the site coral street off frankford avenue looks like virginia schultz say this kind of activity is all too common. Oh, all the time. Every week. Every week. Every week trash comes out here picking it up. Reporter thieves broke into miller medical supplies on east hunting park in the pre predawn hours stole a thousand dollars in cash from the office and took two vans loaded with medical supplies they knew just where to unload their hall. This site offers just enough privacy to be a haven for Illegal Dumping. Prostitution drug use. Michelle duffield lives a block away. Frustration for you as a person who wants to see on a decent block. Just to see all this stuff absolutely. Especially raises kids today. Its not good. A man arriving for work down the block scared off the thieves. They drove away in one stolen van abandoning the other. By mid morning miller employees were back on the scene recovering as much as the dumped equipment as they can salvage. While police searched for clues into the thefts. Folks like virginia schultz well they surveyed mounds of junk tires and debris surrounding the crime scene and la menned what their once nice neighborhood has become. Its a major, you know, ghetto. Its a ghetto. It shouldnt be like this at all all. Now, the video that you saw on our piece especially the inside video at the medical supply Company Gives i was pretty decent look at the two thieves involved here. If either of them looks familiar to you by all means call philadelphia police. One final note this stretch here sits just a couple of yards really away from Railroad Tracks that serve as both septa and amtrak. Which means, yes this eye sore is exactly what greets visitors to our city. Dawn. Not good, thank you bruce. Happening now a display of unity in Cumberland County new jersey. Religious leaders organizing a peaceful rally in vineland today. To remember a man who died while in police custody. While his controversial death last week has sparked debate, Community Leaders are preaching patience and tolerance. Fox 29s brad sattin is live in vineland tonight for us. Brad . Reporter well, dawn, you got to remember this incident happened back on march 31. That was 10 days ago much this Community Wants some answers and fairly fast. They havent come to this point religious leaders came out preaching two things. To keep it peaceful ton give it a little more time. Were not here to protest. Were not here to pass judgment. And were not here to point finger. Reporter what began as paul scribbling thoughts on the death of 32yearold philip white and the controversy that followed turned into a statement of unity. The 26 local pastors quickly signed on to. Were together to hold hands about being human. About being civil. About living in calm, living in peace. Thats what this is all about. Reporter they came to the center of town to pray friday. I think our land could use some healing. Yes. Our city could use some healing. Reporter prayers for philip whites family and the for the officers involved. White died 10 days ago after Police Responded to this 911 call. Theres some guy freaking out on grape street here. Reporter attorney for the officers involved says they initially wanted to help him until he grew increasingly violent and reached for an officers gun. Which followed captured on cell phone video officers in a police k9 as white was on the ground. White was conscious getting into the ambulance but died at the hospital much the pastors say its not time yet to pass judgment. Theres two sides of to every story and we cant draw come to any conclusion until we get all the facts. Being gathered right now by the Cumberland County prosecutor vinelands police chief attended the prayer but wouldnt discuss the case. It was a message of peace. It was message of purpose and meaning for the community and upping something i strongly believe in. Reporter what will clearly shed light on this case is the suspects autopsy and toxicology results. Were being told at least preliminaryily some results should be in in the next few days. Dawn . All right we shall see thank you brad. Devastation in the midwest after deadly tornadoes tear through that region. Residents and rescue crews focusing on cleaning up the mess left behind by those terrifying storms. Crews are searching for missing residents in chicagos far northwest suburbs following massive storm that saw two tornadoes smash through a series of small towns killing at least two people and injuring many others. Flooding, Power Outages and downed trees reported in many areas as the storm continueed to just continue residents describing terrifying moment. All i hear is grumbling and i didnt know what to think. Finally when it was over, the house was gone. Air travel is now back to normal at chicago airports after more than 800 flights were canceled on thursday and today because of the bad weather. Well it is fox 29s spring fling. The weather sort of cooperating. Fox 29s Scott Williams zune serio are live for us in reading to night. Yeah they look leak theyve been having real good fun. Lets get out and talk to them. Folks. Good evening jeff and dawn. We are in reading at the home of fightin phils First Energy Stadium its a pep rally. Sue serio is here and the crowd is going even though the home opener isnt until next friday. They decided to come on out. Theyre fox 29 fans as well. A lot going on out here. We have Harley Davidson motorcycles as well. But sue i think your ride is almost here, too. Right. Thats right. Because tomorrow 3 00 p. M. The car crushing begins right here at fan fest. It starts at 10 00 to 7 00 but the car crash is at 3 00 im get preview right now. The weather will be much better for this tomorrow. Zhu zhus ride is here. This is a monster truck. Its 10,000 pounds. Unbelievable. All right. Well catch up with you later. Back to you. Fox 29 spring fling is continueing. Can you hear anything right now . Its crazy loud here right now. Well try to find there we go. Fox 29 sprinkling gets a huge welcome in reading this morning. Bill anderson and Quincy Harris at Reading High School for a pep rally this morning. This wrapped up their morning at the school and we hear quincy and bill were well behaved werent not called to the Principals Office which is good to know. And reading is still showing their hospitality tonight. Fox 29s alex holly and karen hepp are live in the peanut bar. Guys, we hear jazz is comeing. Reporter its a big kick off for the jazz fest. Its tonight. Alex and i have been having fun eating. We eight ate the wings. You take the peanuts and throw them on the ground. It makes it so nice. This is the place that came up with that. We see that in so many bars. This was the original. In reading theyre famous for pretzels. Thats right. One night they ran out of pretzels. What are we going to do. They came up with peanuts. You were talking about the music fest this is 25th 25th 25th annual one kicking off today. A lot of great acts. More than 140 can certificates now through the nopeth. Some of huge names. Yolanda adams is playing on sunday. I love her. One of the big events up there. Right now someone pretty talent. Caroline reid from this area. Shes over here and shes going to play it out for us. Hit it caroline. Take it away. Whoo back to you guys. Our spring fling continuing neck week. Theyre having a good time. Friday april 17 taking over lansdowne starting at 6 00 in the morning and well be there all the way through our 5 00 and 6 00 p. M. Newscasts. Stay tuned for that. Still ahead on fox 29 news tonight at 6 00 teacher off the job after instructing her third grade class to write get well letters to a convicted cop killer. Its a story you saw first on fox. Next what could be next for the new jersey woman in the middle of this national controversy. Plus a young soldier goes to fight in the vietnam war and never comes home. His family has no idea what happened to him. Until now. How this heartbreaking mystery is solved after 45 years next. Sean . Jordan speith is crush it at the masters. Hear from him later thats late in sports. There is no royal blood in this country. Nothing is reserved for anyone. Its all just out there waiting for someone to reach out and take it. And the ones who do. These are the kings and queens of america. Disturbing video Police Need Help tracking people who viciously assaulted a man in olney. The 51yearold victim beaten outside a Convenience Store tuesday. Police say the attackers used everything from fists and feet to hammer and mace and even a piece of wood. The victim is in critical condition. To have been arrested but investigator its want to find the others involved here. A 30yearold employee of the Delaware County das office is charged with stealing close to 100,000 bucks from her employer. 48yearold mary lynch facing felony charges. Da says lynch and her capacity as financial administrator embezzled funds forfeited for drug and, fresh drug and other criminal cases. The da says lynch admitted she used the money for personal purposes. We believe the deception could be that this is a case of be trail. This is a case where you have a trusted employee a person that you rehired on day in and day out who just thumbed their notice at their face and do they wanted that for their own personal gain unacceptable, intolerable and thats why were so aggressive in this particular case. Thats delawares da. Shes fire. Delaware county da. Shes fired and in jail or 100,000 bucks bail. Its been a long road home but one vietnam war veteran is finally laid to rest. Hundreds of people attending services for sergeant bunion price, jr. He was killed when the helicopter he was flying in was shot down on may second, 1970 almost 45 years ago. The family recently learning that his remains were found at the crash site of sergeant prices. This was all thanks to dna test testing. 45 years of wondering not knowing for sure of what happened to him and we finally getting closure to know what happened to him. Sergeant price will be laid to rest tomorrow. Heres the days big story. Elementary schoolteacher now suspended from her position north Jersey School. This after she had her students write get well letters to a convicted cop killer. Fox 29s weekend anchor Bill Anderson joins us in the newsroom. Bill, a lot going into the School District decision right now. It really is. Jeff evening it was the public uproar. Its been huge. So much so that the orange new jersey School District actually suspended the teacher while the entire district is closed for spring break. So they came back just to suspend her. Already been suspended and now people are demanding that she lose her job permanently. This School System needs to immediately fire any teacher involved in this. Backlash continues to grow in the case involving a third grade teacher who had her students write get well letters to mew mow ya abu jamal. Today the teacher marlon was suspended with pay. We received a statement from the orange new Jersey School superintendent saying she will be immediately suspended with pay until such time the investigation is completed and based upon the results of the investigation additional action may be taken by the board of education. The release also explained that the Principal Administration and parents were not aware of the letters to abu jamal. Parents and the community may not have been aware of the plan to write letters but that didnt stop them from having strong responses to them. Very impressionable when theyre that age and to talk to a criminal, you know, in the third grade and for a teacher to advocate Something Like that, thats crazy. My kid is in the six many grade, of course hes not there but if that was him i would have heart attack. Social media played a huge part in this controversy and the heated discussion continues on facebook with comments like she should be fire. She crossed the line and put her in the cell next to him. Although feedback has been mostly angry these children are now placed in danger by the very people charged with their education. Theyre being used as tools in somebodys twisted agenda. The direct assault from the prison to slowly kell our brother mumia. Abu jamal supporters say they were simply letters to a sick inmate who had previously been rush to the hospital. The angry feedback to the teacher has been overwhelming but tomorrow morning on fox 29 weekend we have the local attorney whose offered to defend her for free. We want to hear your comments. You can tweet us at fox 29 philly in the morning using our fox29weekend. Well check in. Back to your fox 29 weather authority. Now Scott Williams is in reading with sue serio as we take over the town for the fox 29 spring fling. It look like the weather is improving, guys. Yeah, you know the clouds are lifting and well have great weekend right now still kind of cloudy and cool but were outside of the stadium here. First Energy Stadium in reading. Pep rally today but tomorrow is fan fest and look who is joining me. Thats right. Sue serio. They wouldnt let me get on the monster truck so we got another ride. Were on a harley kevin here with Harley Davidson. What type of harley are we on. 2015 Harley Davidson streetcar special. These will be out here for fans tomorrow from 10 to six. What can they expect. Demo rides throughout the day. For anyone whose knavery den come out on a bike, well show you thou state run through the gears simulate like youre ride ago motorcycle. Harley david sons are assembled here in york pennsylvania this bike came from new york. Shipped to us a couple weeks ago. Lets do a little bit of weather. As far as whats happening on radar not a whole lot right now. Weve had some pockets of showers out there as well as some clouds. The main storm threat is going to be well to our south. And then as we talk about that Severe Weather potential it really has been limited because of the cloud cover across our area today. Temperatures once again have been generally in the mid to upper 50s for philadelphia. But points to the south warming into the 60s and 70s. Thats where that warm front has been and also the wind direction has shifted out of the south and west so that is definitely going to help us out. The cold front the warm front its still to the south but thats going to move in scower out all of the clouds and showers. And were going to have a pretty nice weekend as far as the temperatures and as well as the sky conditions. So maybe a few lingering showers and clouds, dress stole night it stays chilly temperatures are going to be in the upper 30s to low 40s and then tomorrow that is going to be good looking at sunshine. Temperatures in the low 60s and then as we move ahead with that authority seven day forecast you can see looking good both saturday and sunday. 62 for the high on saturday. 67 degrees as we move ahead to sunday and then look at monday around 70. More seasonal weather as we move toward early neck week with a couple of chances for some showers. So sue the time has come. You ready to get out of here. Real quick. Can you say to hi to michael crop playing the music for us. I know you can hear him during all the times we remember out who are. He plays live at the ballpark. They have live music almost every game for the reading phillies much its really fun you got to catch game out who are. Come with the family its affordable fun all summer long. Lets ride into the sunset. You ready . Are you going to fire this thing up. Lets fire this thing up. Ahhh this ought to be good. Something to wait for here. All right. Stand by. Oh, man your big moment. Thanks any way. Help all right. Here we go, guys. Ahh you ready . All right. Well sue all i can say is hold on tight. Scott is making me very very nervous. Our spring fling continues next week friday april 17th. Were taking over lansdale starting at 6 00 in the morning well be there all day for both our five and 6 00 p. M. Newscasts newscasts. In the masters jordan speith with historical first two days at augusta. He talk about his off the chart performance. Phillies getting ready for their second series tonight. Theyve sub par and pretty much every way. Manager san we are talks about getting back on track next in sports. The phillies season well starting off shaky already. With the exception of game two the team hasnt been anything to get our hopes up tonight they take on the nationals and Ryne Sandberg basically said this team needs to improve in every way. Were going to have to turn it up a knowledge and then play better baseball. Thats our thing. We need to pitch better overall. We need to play defense and on the offensive side of things we have to create some act on the bases. Golf round two of the first major of the year after tiger woods owned suggest is it a a decade ago they had to tiger proof it. You may have to proof it for another golfer now. Jordan speith is crushing it right now. He follows up a 64 under with a 66, six under par to improve to 14 under for the tournament. Thats the best 36 hole start in masters history. Tiger woods eddie sent day. Shot 69. Stands at two under for the tournament but the attorney is speith. Talk about mentally staying sharp. What i learned was patients the weekend of a major those rounds can often seem like two rounds and kind of the mental, you know, stuff thats running through your head. The stress levels can sometimes theyre higher. The hardest thing to do is to put aside wanting to win so bad and just kind of going through the motion and letting whatever, you know, letting my ball striking and putting happen. At this pace he can break every record. Yeah. Pretty impressive. Sean, thanks. That does it for us to tonight at 6 00. Well see you back here at 10 00. Have a great night. Inside edition is up next. Oh, i love game night.

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